octave-control software package provides control functions for Octave from Octave-Forge, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install octave-control
octave-control is installed in your system.
Make ensure the octave-control package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep octave-control *
You will get with octave-control package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Mathematics |
| Package | octave-control |
| Version | 2.6.2-1build1 |
| Description | control functions for Octave from Octave-Forge |
| Sub Section | math |